K.Hawk: Survival Instinct is a 2002 first-person action game published by the Austrian company JoWooD Productions Software. JoWooD was among the busiest European publishers of the period and its catalogue was strikingly broad - strategy and building games alongside mid-budget action titles of exactly this kind.

2002 was a demanding year for first-person shooters. A handful of major brands with very large budgets dominated attention, and smaller European releases had to find some point of difference. Usually that meant an unusual setting, an emphasis on stealth, or survival across open terrain instead of corridors - which is what the subtitle here suggests was the intention.

Technically, a PC game in 2002 was expected to assume an accelerated graphics card, dynamic shadows and at least rudimentary object physics. Mid-budget productions answered that expectation in one of two ways: fewer but more carefully finished levels, or larger spaces with simpler detail work throughout.

The card names only a publisher and no developer, and lists the game as single-player. A missing studio credit is common for European productions of this era, since many small teams dissolved after one or two projects and their names slipped out of databases before they had settled into them. What survives is the publisher, which held the rights and put the largest logo on the box.

This game's page at OldGame.cz records the release year, the publisher and images; direct play in the browser has not been set up for it.